During
her early life she suffered great indignity and injustice when her father was
incarcerated three times.

Don Domingo one of the earliest
industrialists of the Philippines, was an advocate for liberal reforms. He died
in prison in 1843.

Assuming
control of her father's company, Margarita acquired her vast wealth as she
diversified into real estate, mining, and alcohol production.

Margarita Roxas de Ayala became the
foremost philanthropist of her time, donating her own summer residence called
La Concordia in Santa Ana, Manila in 1868 to the Colegio de la Concordia
which survives to this day as La Concordia College.

The
school upon her instruction was staffed by a Spanish order of nuns, the
Sisters of Charity, and dedicated to educating and giving scholarships to
marginalized women.

She died on November 1, 1869 at age 43
leaving Don Antonio to run the company until his death in 1876. They had
three daughters. The first daughter Carmen Roxas de Ayala would marry her
cousin Don Pedro Pablo Roxas and their daughter Margarita Roxas de Ayala y
Roxas would later marry Eduardo Soriano. They would become the parents of San
Miguel Corporation industrialist

Andres Soriano.

married
to her father's partner who was 25 years her junior, Don Antonio de Ayala, a
Spaniard from the Basque region of Alava de Ayala, Spain.

Don Antonio de Ayala

one of the first directors of Banco
Español-Filipino de Isabel II currently known as Bank of the Philippine
Islands.

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